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- Offers both technological tools and a conceptual basis required for the identification of problems related to biodiversity and their solution
- Written by experts in their fields
- Richly illustrated
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Concepts
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Innovation
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Governance
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About this book
This book provides both the conceptual basis and technological tools that are necessary to identify and solve problems related to biodiversity governance. The authors discuss intriguing evolutionary questions, which involve the sometimes surprising adaptive capacity of certain organisms to dwell in altered and/or changing environments that apparently lost most of their structure and functionality. Space and time heterogeneities are considered in order to understand the patterns of distribution and abundance of species and the various processes that mold them. The book also discusses at which level—from genes to the landscape, including individuals, populations, communities, and ecosystems—men should intervene in nature in order to prevent the loss of biodiversity.
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“The 14-chapter, three-part volume provides convincing arguments about adding human aspects and governance questions to the topic of conservation and classic ecology worldwide. … A strength is the study area focus on Brazil. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above in conservation science.” (F. Huettmann, Choice, Vol. 52 (6), February, 2015)Editors and Affiliations
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Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil
Luciano M. Verdade
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Curso de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade de Santo Amaro, São Paulo, Brazil
Maria Carolina Lyra-Jorge
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Transferencia de Tecnología a la Producción, Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y, Rios, Argentina
Carlos I. Piña
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Applied Ecology and Human Dimensions in Biological Conservation
Editors: Luciano M. Verdade, Maria Carolina Lyra-Jorge, Carlos I. Piña
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54751-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-54750-8Published: 22 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50884-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-54751-5Published: 12 May 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 228
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Applied Ecology, Nature Conservation, Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management, Biodiversity